What If Ford Had Won in 1976?

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Actually, if Ford would've won in 1976, things would have been a lot different as well as better. The economy was rebounding because of the 1975 Middle Class tax cuts, and the unemployment rate was drastically decreasing as well as inflation. I have heard economists say that if Ford won, we most likely would have a surplus by 1978 or 1979, unemployment by 1980 would have been lower than under Eisenhower, and interest rates would be lower than today. In 2 1/2 years, the Ford Administration created 16 1/2 million jobs in Agriculture, Manufacturing, and construction.
Jimmy Carter dealt his own hand by reversing a majority of what Ford did, and that's how the 1970's ended. If Ford won in 1976, Reagan would never had been President.

Jim Jacobson of WI 12:49PM April 10, 2012

I think Ford would have gone down as one of the best of all time if he would've won in '76. He was turning the economy around and when Carter became President he reversed everything that Ford had done, which caused the late '70's disaster.

Jim of WI 8:48PM March 20, 2012